Tidy-pin



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C. o. GROSMAN.

l TIDY PIN.

10.261,208. 'Patented July 18, 1832.

UNITED f STATESv PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES O. GROSMAN, OF NORTH EASTON, MAS-SACHSETTS.

TIDY-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 261,208, dated July 18, 1882,

Application filed April 27, 18852.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES C. CRosMAN, of North Easton, in the county of Bristol, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Tidy-Pins, of which the following is a description sufciently full, clear, andexact to enable anyperson skilled in the art or science to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawin gs, forming a part of this specification, of which- Figure l is a front View, Fig. 2, arear View;

Fig. 3, a vertical longitudinal section; and Fig. 4, a rear view, showing the tidy attached to the pin.

Similarl letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the drawings.

My invention relates principally to means for preventing the tidy from being torn from the pin, and also the pin from becoming detached from the tidy or chair; and it consists in a novel construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter set forth and claimed, by which a more ei'ective device of this character is produced than is now in ordinary use.

In the drawings, A represents the body, and B C the heads. The body is composed ot' a short strip of rubber or elastic tape, and may be secured to the heads by riveting or cementing, or in any other convenient and proper manner, the ends of the body being preferably inserted in socket-s in the heads B C. Each of the heads is provided on the back or rea-r side with two attaching-pins, a a, d d, as shown in Fig. 2, for securing or attaching the device to the chair and tidy. These pins are arranged in pairs, with their points inward, as seen in Fig. 2, and provided with a short crook, 0r

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' are bentoutwardly near their centers, as shown at 'm m, so that when they enter the chair covering or tidy a portieri ofthe same will be grasped and held between the pins at the bends m on in such a manner as to greatly assist in preventing the pin from becoming accidentally detached when in use.

I sometimes construct the device as shown in Fig. 4, each of the heads B C being provided with bnt one pin, in which case the pins are preferably corrugated or made with tWo or more short bends, as seen at or x, to assist in retaining them in the material in which they are inserted.

It is well known that when ordinary tidypins are used to secure the tidy to the chair or .other article of furniture the tidy is frequently torn from the pin and injured by the person sitting in the chair on account ot' the rigid or unyielding nature ot' the pin. This objection is entirely obviated by my improvement, the body A being composed of rubber or other elastic materiall and stretching or yielding when the tidy is accidentally pulled downward or any undue strain is brought to bear upon the pin, as shown by the dotted lines z, Fig. 4, thus preventing it from being injured or the pin broken.

Having thus explained my invention, what I claim is- The improved tidy-pin described, the same consisting ot' the heads B (l, connected by the elastic body A, each of the heads being provided with au attaching-pin, substantially as and for the purposes specied.

CHARLES G. CROSMAN.

Witnesses:

C. A. SHAW, D. B. WHITTIER. 

